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Soul Discovery Show – An Exclusive Interview with Betty Wright from 2009

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Soul Discovery Show – An Exclusive Interview with Betty Wright from 2009
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Born singing gospel with the family group, the Echoes of Joy, Wright began experimenting with R&B music in 1965 when she was only 11. In 1968, she released her first album, My First Time Around, by the age of 14, and scored her first national hit, “Girls Can’t Do What Guys Can Do”. But it was not until the end of 1971 that Wright’s most successful phase of her career began to take place.

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